The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Teaching is a complex process, and many theories have been developed in order to explain how to maximize the knowledge to be passed from one person to another with efficiency and effectiveness. It has been stated that pointing out the positive actions of the learner and ignoring the negative ones is the best way to teach. However, this assumption is flawed in many aspects, and should not be considered a good way of transmitting knowledge.
First of all, whe a person who is going through any educational process receives nothing more than compliments, he/she will never know when something he/she did in a manner should be done in differently. Thus, the learner will continue to act the same way as when the learning process began. That contradicts the very definition of “learning”, that can be explained as "the action of changing one’s behavior in some particular aspect”. Well, if you do not point the negative actions, how could a person know that something is being done in a wrong, or at least in an uneffecient way?
Secondly, it is safe to say that negative reinforcements are very important to the learning process. Not only should the teacher point out a negative action, but also do something to prevent the learner to act in the wrong way again. This is primordial to the process. The students of a school, for instance, should be thaught that missing classes is wrong, and if they do so, their parents should be warned and they shoulg get detention.
Moreover, criticism is a way of showing respect and concerness. When a child is being taken care of, but the mother doesn’t correct the bad actions, the child is likely to think that he/she can do anything in any way, and the mother is not concerned at all. Tha same thing happen in any learning process.
Therefore, while evaluating the positive aspects of one’s learning process is a good way to keep the learner’s interest and, therefore, help with his/her evolution, it is also important to point out the improvement opportunities on their actions in order to maximize the transmitted knowledge.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, at least, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1759.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96892655367 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99904891986 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516949152542 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 531.9 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.0476956912 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.266666667 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.6 5.21951772744 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188358010637 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761068264654 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116784502919 0.0758088955206 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113073206874 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0771788634612 0.0667264976115 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 100.480337079 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.